tech

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English

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Etymology

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Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

  2. (informal) Technology.
    I can't understand all this new tech.
    • 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process:
      Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.
    • 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:
      "The tech on this is really good. But in essence, it's still a train any competent driver should be able to learn easily.
    1. Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
      Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.
      Tech stocks are down on Nasdaq.
      Tech workers can earn big money.
  4. (informal) Technician; technologist.
    Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech
    The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.
    • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
      A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
  6. (informal) Technique.
  8. (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.
    Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
    In high school, he attended the tech program, studying construction trades.
  10. (informal) Short for technical rehearsal..
    • 2017 November 30, Marc J. Franklin, “Inside Tech Rehearsal for Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical”, in Playbill‎[1]:
      Despite his early preparation, the three-week tech period is Nigrini’s only opportunity to make his vision come to fruition.
    • 2020 December 31, Alyssa Bereznak, “Anyone Can Cook: The Oral History of Ratatouille: The Musical”, in The Ringer‎[2]:
      Typically when you’re developing a musical you have hours of rehearsal and hours of tech, […] and everyone’s tired of the show by the end.

Derived terms

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Verb

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tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

  1. (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

The -ch is analogical to other nouns and adjectives where final non-palatal -ch alternates with palatal -ig.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

  1. house
    Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Declension

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Neuter s-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative techN, teg techN, teg tigeL, taigeH
Vocative techN, teg techN, teg tigeL, taigeH
Accusative techN, teg techN, teg tigeL, taigeH
Genitive tigeL, taigeH tige, taigeH tigeN, taigeH
Dative tigL, taigL tigib tigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tech thech tech
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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